Muhaydin Mire

Muhaydin Mire (1986-) was an Islamic State supporter from England who was the perpetrator of the December 2015 Leytonstone tube station attack that left 3 people injured.

Biography
Muhaydin Mire was born in 1986 in Leytonstone, London, England to a family of Sunni Muslims, and he became a radical Islamist who supported the Islamic State. He had IS slogans on his phone as well as pictures of the November 2015 Paris attacks and 2015 San Bernardino shooting, and he planned to behead a person in the London Underground on 5 December 2015. The 54-year-old musician was wounded and later had to undergo surgery, while Mire wounded two others. He shouted that the attack was for his "brothers in Syria", coming just after the British Parliament voted to extend airstrikes to the Syrian Civil War. He was tasered by police and imprisoned as a result of his attempted murder of the man.